Author, filmmaker and Tight Line Media CEO Kris Millgate joined the Marine Fish Conservation Network and host Tom Sadler for an online Waterside Chat on January 29, 2025.

Kris is an Emmy-winning multimedia journalist who started Tight Line Media in 2006. She hosted Time OUT(an outdoor TV news segment) for seven years, then created East Idaho Outdoors magazine in 2014.

Her first book, My Place Among Men, was published in 2019. The sequel, My Place Among Fish, was published in 2021 alongside the debut of her salmon film Ocean to Idaho. Her third book, My Place Among Beasts, was published with her wildlife film, On Grizzly Ground, in 2023. You can learn more about these and her other projects and order your own copies at: https://www.tightlinemedia.com/

Among many other topics, Kris and Tom talked about:

• How she became an outdoor journalist despite shyness and a childhood fear of people with beards
• How she spent a summer in a camper following salmon from the ocean to their spawning streams in Idaho
• The physical toll migration takes on salmon -- and on a filmmaker following them
• The difference between a situation that makes you uncomfortable and one that's actually unsafe
• The one thing everyone does when they come face to face with a grizzly
• Why it's so important to capture all points of view on a topic as controversial as dam removal in the West
• Why storytellers need to meet people where they are, understanding that they may take in information in different ways via different media
• Her newest project, Sage Wisdom West, which follows sage grouse in the high desert, "a fantastic landscape that sustains perhaps more wildlife than the mountains"

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